[ClearCase_guy]

each one of us has the right to change our own human nature.

The thing you can change is not the thing known as Human Nature. Human Nature is the thing that is unchangeable.

Also: watch out! The Singularity approaches.

[BipolarBob]

watch out! The Singularity approaches.

Who dat? I don't know no Singularity, but when I get some nano juice in me I'm ganna be all outta bubblegum.

[processing please hold]

Direct attempts to prevent a singularity are mistaken, even dangerous. History has shown time and again that well-meaning efforts to control the creation of powerful technologies serve only to drive their development underground into the hands of secretive government agencies, sophisticated political movements, and global-scale corporations, few of whom have demonstrated a consistent willingness to act in the best interests of the planet as a whole. These organizations -- whether the National Security Agency, Aum Shinri Kyo, or Monsanto -- act without concern for popular oversight, discussion, or guidance. When the process is secret and the goal is power, the public is the victim. The world is not a safer place with treaty-defying surreptitious bioweapons labs and hidden nuclear proliferation. Those who would save humanity by restricting transformative technologies to a power elite make a tragic mistake.

Imagine what it would mean should the islamofacist get their hands on perfected nano...

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